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First you take the phone cord, without touching it will look like this; #=============================#Cut off one of the #s. Now cut about 2 inches off of the cover of the endmissing the #. Now your cord should look like this; #======================-------#Cut off the yellow and black wires at the base of what cord-cover is left(they are not used in this project). Now you take the red/green wires andstrip off an inch of the covering (under the covering should be coppercolored wire. It will look like this; #======================----****Take the alligator clips, and attach them to the stripped wires, matchingred/red and green/green. You now have THE 'BEIGE BOX'.

You hook the # into the phone, and then you go to the house that youwill either make your call from, or spy on. Go to the side of their housewith the boxes on it, you should see a little box with the bell symbol onit (a bell in a circle),take out the screwdriver and open the box(the middle screw will pop it right open). Now look at the inside of thebox with the flashlight...You should see wires connected to screws...noticethe colors? These are the same colors as inside a phone-cord....you willnow take the alligator clips and put them over the screws that have a wirewith the matching color leading to them. now take the phone off the hook...if you don't hear talking or a dial-tone...then you screwed up. Now youcan listen when they talk, OR make calls when they are not using the phone.TO find your ANI(number of the phone that you are on) dial 1-800-223-1104,or in some places dialing 200-200-2000 will also give you your ani(A operator recording will tell you the phone number). Ani stands forAutomatic Number Identification, which every phone line that is activatedhas. Basically its just the phone number of the person's line you are on. If none of these Ani numbers work for you, join #phreak in irc and ask themfor one, or ask some local phone phreakers in your state.

SOME GOOD USES FOR BEIGE BOXING

Well lets say you and your crew of hackers/phone phreakers/ANSI Kids/Warez group, or whatever you're in would all like to talk to each anddiscuss the happenings of what is going on in the group, or have new ideas or new information to share latest hack's or what not. But damn, because ofAT&T's High phone rate, its too expensive to call people in other states, and chat with the them for along time. Well, this may work for you. Notethis isn't new to a lot of people, most know about this, but the fact isthat I really think AT&T sucks a big fat cock, I would like more people toknow about this. Phone Phreakers/Hackers have been doing this for years, andso have some of the Warez Kidz and ANSI doodz. What I am talking about iscalled TELECONFERENCING. Basically teleconferencing is when you callup a business such as AT&T or for any other big phone companies and tellthem you would like to setup a conference call for your business. They willask you for some information (see below), and they will give you an 800number and pin number. Depending on how ports you set it up for you givethis 800 number and pin number to your friends on irc you all call it up andBAM your all connected and can talk for free, for how ever long you set itup. How nice and convenient for you and your group.

Instructions on setting up and AT&T Teleconference While Beige boxing. note: This is after your Beige box is already hooked to the phone line.

1) Find out the number of the phone line you are calling from, bydialing an ANI read-back number, I gave a couple above in this text file. Its a good thing to have paper with you so you can write down the phonenumber, and anything else you need to write down.

2) Next call 1-800-232-1111 which is the AT&T Teleconference service.Tell them you are interested in setting up a teleconference, they will askyou for a company name and company address and ask for your phone number.Give the them phone number of the phone line that you are using. They willask you what time you want it setup for make sure you know what time zoneyou are in, (for all you dumb fucks out there) and give them a time. Nextthey will ask how many ports you want it for, ports = number of lines, soif you want 10 people to call, say 10 ports. And don't be stupid when doingthis or they will get specious and it won't work. Don't say you want 50ports for 20 hours, be sensible like say 12 to 15 ports for like 3 to 5hours. You can always go back and extend it too, if you want more time andports.

3) OK now this varies, depending on the operator you get, the abovethings I told you, some times they will ask to call you back before theytake down your information, or sometimes they will ask to take yourinformation and then they will call you back. Why do they call you back??Well the simple reason is to prevent this what you are planning to do fromhappening. No make sure you think up of a company name address and bullshitbefore you even go out and do this just to make it easier on your self.Its also a good idea to beige box right from a company that is closed.Because no one will be there and you won't have to worry about anyonepicking up the phone. Picking up the phone you say?? Ya that's rightpicking up the phone, if you box off a person house you have to worryabout them picking up the phone, which sucks. And if you beige box off acompanies line you can use that companies name and address and give it tothe fuckin AT&T operator, so you won't have to make one up.

4) OK now to better yourself from the people picking up the phone atthe house you are beige boxing off, you can disconnect their phone bytaking the jack (that those screws have wires leading to) and taking itout, now they have no phone line (just hope they don’t go to use theirphone). Hook it back up when you are done. Or box off a house when youknow that the people aren't home. Or like I said before box off a business.

5) Now lets say you called AT&T gave them the info that you made up,or gave them info about the business who's line you are using, they willsay they will call you back in a few minutes. OK so they will hang up waitaround for about 15 minutes usually they call back right away, but if ittakes like more then a half hour its probably not gonna work mean thatthere is probably a billing restriction on the line or something. Youcould always call back and find out why they didn't call back I do that,sometimes they are busy or what not. Next say they call back they will sayok we have your conference scheduled for whatever time you set it up forand for however many ports you set it up for. Now they will give you an800 number and 2 Pin numbers. One of the Pin numbers is for the host of theconference which is you, and the second one is for all the people that youwant to call your conference. Then you say thank you and hang-up and callsome other numbers or go home. Now you can set up your conferences likeweeks or days ahead, or you can set them up to start in an hour.

6) Calling to the conference, well you as the host call the 800number and enter your pin you give your friends the 800 number and therepin, and they call. Remember if the host doesn't call within a half hourafter the conference started it will automatically shut down. Calling withthe host pin will allow you to get the operator on the line to add more timeor you can also shut the conference down. But if you all call up you willall be connected and can talk for free.

7) Now a couple things, well setting one of these up real late atnight, like at 1:00am is sometimes hard cause they say they aren't able toaccess the equipment but you can mostly likely do it. But try to do it asearly as possible, it makes it more legit. Also you say well what if theyget my phone number when calling the 800 number, because for those of youwho don't know every 800 number has ANI automatic number identification,which means your number will show up on the bill they get or on a littlescreen they have depending how sophisticated they are. Well for one thingyou can't get in trouble for calling an illegal 800 number if you didn'tknow it was illegal right?? of course, some kid gave it to you from irc hesaid it was ok that's a good one to use. But in my 7 years of setting upconferences and calling conferences I have never had anyone call me and ask.AT&T is such a big company that they don't give a shit, they have enoughmoney as it is. So don't worry about it. But a couple things you can do tostop your Ani from getting passed some what is by having your local operatordial the 800 number for you. By doing that your number stops at theoperators switchboard she then transfers an ANI of 555-0000 to the 800number you are calling then they don't know where you are calling from.Note this isn't 100% safe so don't do it to make credit card or calling cardcalls from your house by having the operator dial the number for you becauseyou will get caught. Just use it as a type of a diverter to call 800teleconferences with it works great. Also the only person that has to worryabout anything at all is the host, the person that setup the conference,witch I don't even bother to worry about just as long as I dial 0 and havethe operator dial the 1-800 number AT&T gave me. Or what I do sometimes isgo to a local pay phone and call the conference up from there enter thehost pin in at the pay phone leave it off the hook and go back home and callthe conference and enter the user pin. That way there is no way to getframed for setting up the conference. That is pretty much about it, just be careful, and use your brain.

SOME OTHER THINGS TO HAVE FUN WITH AND TRY

Setup a AT&T teleconference from a pay phone that accepts incomingcalls. Most pay phones that are put in by your local phone company won'tallow you to setup conferences from AT&T because it will say they are unableto be billed to. But every city, State, Town has some pay-phones witch looka little different then your normal pay-phones in your area, and aren'towned by your local phone company. These phones are called Cocots, witchare Customer Own and operated Pay-phones. Usually you can setup AT&Tconferences from these for awhile until they get smart on you and have themrestricted. You can tell that a phone is a Cocot by it won't have yournormal phone company sticker on it, when you try to dial out with it, itwill have an automated operator saying please deposit 25 cents over and overand it will have the keypad locked out until you put in the money, and youwon't be able to red box from them. Now if you do get a conference setupthrough one of these Cocots, its nice because you can keep setting upconferences from here because AT&T will have your information on computerand you just give them the same pin numbers and 1-800 number from the lastconference and they will set up another conference for you its nice. Also some of the new phone boxes out let you just plug in a normalphone into the box, so check out the one on the side of your house, to get afeel of what to do before going out and actually doing it, so you knowexactly what you are doing. Another thing, if you know anyone in an apartment building or liveclose to a box make a cordless beige box hook a lantern battery up to acordless phone to give it power and hook the phone up to the phone box, andtake the handset inside and you have a cordless beige box, just remember thephone box you are tapping into has to be close but do to the range of thecordless phone. If you know a person that lives in an apartment buildingyou can try to get into the maintenance room or just use the phone boxoutside hook it up and take the handset into his apartment and you haveyourself free phone calls and don't have to stand out side and worry aboutgetting caught, and being cold in the winter time. Another thing to do, is go to your local business and go trashing(dumpster diving) in there dumpster and look for credit card receipts, andpasswords, and anything else you can use to your advantage, phone companiesare good places to find lots of secret information. Secret Codes ways tocall for free, information on the telephone companies switch all sorts ofgoodies. If you do find credit cards most receipts have the persons creditcard and there first name, well bring out the good old phone book and lookup the persons name for his address and phone number, and there you haveyourself a full info credit card to use, to get onto on-line services, cardmerchandise and other sorts of stuff. Also travel agencies throw outinvoice and receipts that have a persons full credit card information infact, a lot of places do. So check around you will be suprised at what youfind. The best way to trash is pull up to a dumpster and throw a couplebags of trash in the vehicle and go home or someplace else and look throughit, so nobodies see you at the business so you don't get in any trouble.And if you take it home to look through you can look through it morecarefully that way. Also carry a bag of pop cans with you In case the copssee you tell them you are looking for pop cans, or make up something good.Also don't have anything illegal on you when you go trashing so that theycan't link your trashing to any illegal activities.

SOME OTHER STUFF TO DO

With credit numbers just the numbers, you don't need a name oraddress, or anything else. You can call 1-800-call-ATT hit 1 for a creditcard call it will ask for you to enter in the phone number you are calling,it will ask to enter in your credit card number and expiration date. Andthere you have it free phone calls. A couple things don't do this from yourhouse unless you know how to divert your calls to make them look like theyare coming from a different place, and also do to the large amount of creditcard calls AT&T won't take visa credit cards, only Master card, AmericanExpress and Discover, The same goes for all the other companies.1-800-any-call is MCI’s phone number to make credit card calls also but youneed the zip code of the credit card you are using, and they to don't takevisa.

MORE THINGS YOU CAN USE CREDIT CARDS ON

Some conferences place like Sprint and many others will let you setupteleconferences with full info credit cards. When I say full info I meanname, address, phone number and card number. So try that but do it from apay-phone when setting it up. You can also use cards for on-line services, to order shit to peopleshouse you don't like dildos and stripers and stuff, you can also use it on aservice called send-a-song witch is fun the number is 1-800-272-SONG. Itlets you card a song to a persons house, fun to do to harass a person.There are many possibilities you can do just think of them. Also there are many teleconferences places out there get your phonebook out and look them up try those. And remember always use a pay-phone unless you know how to phonephreak real well, AT&T also has a dialout conference where you dial out toall the people you want on the conference fun to do when beige boxing0700-456-1000 its all automated and nice when beige boxing. Some numbers to call when beige boxing or making credit card callsfrom pay-phones.

1)1-801-855-3326 Defcon voice bridge its a voice party-line wherePhone phreakers and computer hackers hangout. Call it after all it will befree use 1-800-call-ATT for calling this. Defcon also has a web pagehttp://www.defcon.org

This method has been around for a long time. It is for getting freephone calls from a very OLD payphone(like the one at my school) Here is whatyou do: Take a paper-clip, and unfold it so that it looks like this; _______ (__________________________________

Now stick the pointed end inside the middle hole of the reciever andthe round end on the bell sign (a circle with a bell in it). Dial thenumber that you want to talk to. As you dial the number you should hear thetones out load (faint and wierd sounding). when the last tone has stoppedmaking noise, take the paper-clip out and talk on the phone. ENJOY!!! Try to not get shocked.

beige boxing is a very old idea, and has been used by many of us. I used to use it all the time...For legal purposes of course

Now a days, you don't even nee aligator clips, etc. Most newer TNI boxes (70's and older I believe) have an actual phone jack inside of them, so you can just plug a normal phone inside of them. However an actual beige box may still be needed for some businesses with multiple lines on one connection.

Well, linesmen still use handsets with a pair of clips on them which connect to the telephone lines in the boxes. However if you're looking to snoop in on, or make calls from someone's TNI box (Which I hope you're not! gasp!) then all you need is a normal phone if the TNI box is reasonably new. There will be a little cover that unclips in the box which will uncover a regular telephone jack that you just connect your telephone to.

I think this is only on normal houses though. In places such as apartment buildings it could be different for all I know.